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PokerStars increases tourney guarantees...again
If it's Tuesday, it must be time for PokerStars to pump up its guaranteed tournament schedule again. To be fair, it's not every week PokerStars gives its guarantees a shot in the arm, but it does seem like it's happen...
PokerStars Sunday Tournament Results (8-17-08)
As we count down the days to the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker, we continue to be amazed by the kind of money being made on any given Sunday at PokerStars. Top honors this week go to Gunslinger3, who...
Gunslinger3 Leaves No One Standing: Sunday Million Results 08-17-08
People playing the Sunday Million tonight may be looking for some buy-ins to the World Championship of Online Poker that starts here at PokerStars on September 5th. With 7651 players creating a $1,530,200.00 prize pool, almost all of our final...
Stud: Playing for fun and playing to win
by Adam "STUDstood" Roberts I am a consultant for PokerStars in the stud section. I oversee the 10-20 and 30-60 limit Stud high, Stud Hi/Lo, and Razz games. For those of you who do not know me, I have been...
Supernova Elites explode in July
If you didn't spend last month under a rock, you probaly know PokerStars had a bit of a promotion (read: its biggest ever) during the month of the July. The end of the PokerStars 2X promotion saw tons of people...
PokerStars TLB July Update
July was a month that saw PokerStars tournament fields grow to record heights. A combination of PokerStars 2X and a new tournament guarantee schedule has lifted the site to a whole new level. With such massive fields, and giant prizes,...
PokerStars Sunday Tournament Results (8-10-08)
With just a few weeks to go until the start of WCOOP, the Sunday majors on PokerStars are getting quite a work out. The biggest WCOOP warm-up came in the form of this weekend's Sunday Million. A two-way deal gave...
Sunday Million 8/10/08 - ziggy47 claims the top spot!
Another Sunday, another massive field in the Sunday Million, and another $1.5 Million guarantee shattered. This week 8,236 players built a prize pool of $1,647,200.00, with the top 1260 players taking home a piece of the pie. After nine...
LAPT Punta del Este: Begin the reign of the man from Spain
All good things must come to an end, and now the first season of the Latin America Poker Tour (LAPT) is in the record books. After Julien Nuijten in Rio de Janeiro, Valdemar Kwaysser in San Jose, the third and...
LAPT Punta del Este: Final table, level 27
11.40pm -- Jose Miguel Espinar, Spain, champion of LAPT Punta del Este, earning $241,735 Alex Brenes, Costa Rica, eliminated in second place, earning $127,675 It all goes in next hand and Brenes has A-10 against Espinar's king-five. But a king...
LAPT Punta del Este: Final table, level 26
11.10pm -- We have a ten minute break at the end of the level and white chips are coming into play. 11.05pm -- After a period of small-ball jousting, there's a raise and a re-raise pre-flop with Espinar repopping Brenes...
LAPT Punta del Este: Final table, level 25
10.10pm -- King high good. They get all the way to the river, and see a board of A-9-5-3-5. Espinar bet the turn but Alex called, and after they both checked the river, Brenes showed jack high. That was no...
LAPT Punta del Este: Final table, level 24
8.30pm -- The level is over, and we're off to dinner. It was a largely uneventful first hour of heads up action and the stacks are almost level. We'll be back for level 25 soon. 8.20pm -- We've been playing...
LAPT Punta del Este: Final table, level 23
7pm - Lisandro Gallo, Argentina, eliminated in third place, earning $93,630 After the huge hand against Espinar, Gallo was left with just 10,000, putting him all in in the big blind. Remarkably, he doubled up twice, with nine-six and then...
LAPT Punta del Este: Final table, level 22
5.25pm -- Alex Brenes and Jose Miguel Espinar are at it again, with Espinar raising from the button pre-flop (to 55,000) and Brenes reraising 220,000 from the big blind. Espinar calls. The flop is 8s-Jd-9h and both players check. The...
